Alesis QSR 64 manual Using Pcmcia Expansion Cards, Saving the User Bank to a Pcmcia Card

MIDI Transfer and Storage Operations: Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9

MIDI TRANSFER AND STORAGE OPERATIONS

USING PCMCIA EXPANSION CARDS

The QSR provides two PCMCIA EXPANSION CARD slots, [A] or [B], which are found on the front panel. These accomodate Alesis QCards and RAM cards. The RAM Card is a type of PCMCIA SRAM or FlashRAM card; it has 256K of memory and will store 4 complete banks. A 512K PCMCIA card can store 8 banks.

When saving data to a card that contains a ROM (READ-ONLY) bank, the ROM data is found in bank 1; this means you cannot save anything into bank 1. Each PCMCIA Expansion Card slot can house a card with up to 8 Mb of RAM, for a total of 16 additional megabytes of sound storage.

SAVING THE USER BANK TO A PCMCIA CARD

The entire contents of the QSR’s User memory (100 Mixes and 128 Programs) can be stored to an Alesis PCMCIA RAM card inserted into PCMCIA EXPANSION CARD slot

[A] on the QSR. Depending on the amount of RAM a particular card has, up to 8 complete banks can be stored onto it.

➀Insert a card into Sound Card slot A on the front of the QSR. Alesis recommends that you use card slot A for all RAM card storage operations.

➁Press [STORE].

➂Press [ CURSOR] three times to select Page 8 of the Store function.

This selects the “SAVE TO CARD” option. The display will look like this:

Save USER to

CrdABnk1 (STR)

➃Use the [VALUE] knob to select a bank location on the card to store to (A-1–4, etc.).

If the card contains a ROM bank, it will bshow as Bank 1 and you will be unable to store to it.

➄Press [STORE] to transfer the user bank data from the QSR onto the card.

If the display reads “CARD A IS WRITE PROTECTED.”, switch the write- protect switch on the card to off and repeat the procedure.

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